Exam question 3 · Oz, The Scarecrow, part 4: Dorothy meets a talking Scarecr…

Determine the sequence in which the Scarecrow's features were painted by the farmer, as described in the passage.

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, farmer, Scarecrow · What happens: determine, paint, describe, feature · To what, where: sequence, features, passage

This is exam question 3 of lesson 1589 «Oz, The Scarecrow, part 4: Dorothy meets a talking Scarecrow who wants brains and joins her on the yellow brick road» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Determine	determine	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 sequence	det
3	sequence	sequence	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Determine	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 which	case
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 painted	obl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Scarecrow	det
7	Scarecrow	Scarecrow	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 features	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 Scarecrow	case
9	features	feature	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 painted	nsubj:pass
10	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 painted	aux:pass
11	painted	paint	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 sequence	acl:relcl
12	by	by	ADP	_	14 farmer	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 farmer	det
14	farmer	farmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 painted	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 described	punct
16	as	as	SCONJ	_	17 described	mark
17	described	describe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 painted	conj
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 passage	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 passage	det
20	passage	passage	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 described	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Determine	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	determine	imperative	you not said here	the sequence		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sequence=Topic
2	paint	past · passive	the farmer	the Scarecrow's features	the sequence	vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent subject=Theme in which=Destination
3	describe	participle	the farmer not said here		the passage	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
4	feature		the Scarecrow			nom feature «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

The options

Option 1

Eyes first

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	1 Eyes	advmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The ears were painted before the eyes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 ears	det
2	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 painted	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 painted	aux:pass
4	painted	paint	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	before	before	ADP	_	7 eyes	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 eyes	det
7	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 painted	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	paint	past · passive		the ears		the eyes			vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: subject=Theme before eye=Destination

Option 3

The eyes were painted before the ears

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 eyes	det
2	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 painted	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 painted	aux:pass
4	painted	paint	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	before	before	ADP	_	7 ears	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 ears	det
7	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 painted	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	paint	past · passive		the eyes		the ears			vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: subject=Theme before ear=Destination

Option 4

Ears only

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	only	only	ADV	_	1 Ears	advmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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